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crushed

adjective

  1. pressed, broken, or flattened by force
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kɹʌʃt/

adj

  1. Pulverized, rendered into small, disconnected fragments.
  2. Broken, saddened, depressed, devastated.

    “We were totally crushed upon hearing the news of your accident.”

    “[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.”

  3. Of a fabric, having the appearance of having been crushed.

    “Her top was of black crushed velvet.”

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of crush